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Pedroia out with renewed left knee pain
notin replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
If he retires, he walks away from $25mill over the next two years. Not happening... -
Looking at a bigger picture like WAR, you are...
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Not necessarily. Analytically our catching was bottom of the MLB barrel.
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I’ve said it before - Workman is borderline MLB talent at best...
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I was hoping you might interpret “position from the lineup” to NOT mean pitching. Improving pitching is a given for every team every year. It’s just as vague as “room for improvement”...
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He did play nothing but catcher until 2016...
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If you had to pick one position from the 2018 lineup to improve upon, which one would you have picked?
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But it also doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement...
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That happens all the time. Players switch to new positions either in the minors or after being drafted. I heard an interview with Brandon Inge once where he talked about being drafted. Inge was a shortstop at VCU and an expected high pick. When he got the call that he was a second round selection of the Tigers, he was relieved. That lasted for a minute or two when the Tiger scout called back and told him “By the way, you’re going to be a catcher...”
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... it’s usually enough to send Greg Bird to the IL...
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Rajai Davis is close, having started his career in 2001...
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You were too young in 2007 when Cora got his first World Series ring with the Red Sox?
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What are the chances of Porcello being offered a contract extension?
notin replied to TylerD's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He’s going to need a major turnaround in either performance or salary expectations to get even a two year deal... -
What are the chances of Porcello being offered a contract extension?
notin replied to TylerD's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
About the same as the odds of me flapping my arms and flying to the moon.... -
But Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com (and formerly of Fangraphs.com) has proven remarkably adept at predicting the baseball postseason participants and election results...
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A moment that was likely instrumental in his DFA...
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I knew they were involved but i didn’t look it up. But St. Louis did hack Houston. The guy who did it was named “Correa”, a name I normally associate with the Astros...
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Again, it’s always been this way. Managers are pressured to win. If analytics help them win, they want them. The only change is what analytics are used. Baseball has been a stat driven sport for a long time now. Even Earl Weaver, famous for his mantra of “pitching, defense, and three-run homers” used the available analytics. While Weaver tried to pass himself off as an “old school” fire and brimstone baseball guy, he was a complete slave to his available analytics. He employed position platoons more than any other contemporary manager, he used the a pitching rotation because the available data related pitcher rest to pitcher success (although he rebelled slightly with a 4 man rotation a lot) and he used lefty-righty bullpen matchups because data told him it worked. Weaver was also a front runner in de-emphasizing the importance of stolen bases. Think Connie Mack did any of that? (Mack once used Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity to start a combined 90 of his teams 139 games, and then used them a combined 10 more times in relief.)
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I also mentioned Grandal, whose rocking MLB pitching right now. I wondered if DD was hoping for a Moustakas type situation, but Grandal did get paid. And maybe/hopefully DD was hoping Grandal would go all Moustakas...
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Winning ST games means nothing. Not actually preparing for the season is another matter. If the Sam Travis and Domingo Tapia and Bobby Dalbec types managed a better March W-L record, would you feel better about this team?
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Apparently the Phillies currently have a minor league catcher named Colby Fitch. So... Reggie Abercrombie and Colby Fitch. Kind of surprised I needed a minor leaguer there. It was easier to piece together Dewey, Cheatum and Howe...
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Too late!! I’ve already placed you on the “Trade Betts” bus! In fact, I have you as the driver...
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Also, hacking
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They all are. Managing a baseball team without using analytics is like trying to win the Indy 500 driving a Model T...
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Unless he was insinuating a trade of Betts...
